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The 1997 Ontario teachers' strike was a labour dispute between the government of Ontario under Premier Mike Harris of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario (PCs), and the Ontario Teachers' Federation (OTF) and its member labour unions.
In 1997, the organization saw thousands of teachers and supporters on the front lawn of the Ontario Legislature in Toronto for a strike. [3] The Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan lost $19 billion in 2008. [4] Between 2008 and 2009, net assets fell to $87.4 billion from $108.5 billion. [4]
The strike, which is set to affect 40,000 high school teachers and 15,000 support staff, was the largest-scale for /*this group of Ontario teachers since 1997, said Ontario Secondary School ...
The strike ended on November 14 when OPSEU and the Ontario Council of Regents agreed to binding arbitration after back-to-work legislation was threatened. [17] At the time, the average earnings of a teacher was about $47,000, and salaries ranged from $22,800 to $52,250.
Some 55,000 workers in the education sector in Ontario, the country's largest province, went on strike on Friday after failing to reach an agreement with the provincial government on better pay ...
1997 Ontario teachers' strike; 2007–2009 university protests in France; 2007–2008 Berlitz Japan strike; 2008 National Union of Teachers strike; 2008–2009 York University strike; 2013 United Kingdom higher education strike; 2018 York University strike; 2022 University Teachers Association of Ghana strike; 2023 Atacama Region teachers' strike
Ontario's education minister Stephen Lecce continues to call on Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) members to "end the illegal strike."
In 2011, the Ontario College of Teachers was criticized for keeping secret the names of teachers who were allowed to teach in Ontario classrooms even after committing crimes against children. [8] [9] The Toronto Star found that out of 49 cases published by the Ontario College of Teachers in 2010, 35 such cases kept the teacher anonymous. [10]